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Column nift for tax.com. good morning, david. >> good morning. >> you say there are nine things that the rich don't want you to know about taxes. walk us through them. >> the first one is this negotiation that poor americans don't pay taxes. i've heard a number of people on msnbc in the past few days assert that the top 1% pay 40% of the taxes. actually the top 1% pay 40% of the income taxes which are a minority of all federal taxes. and they are only one-fifth of all the taxes americans pay. as for the poor, the bottom half of americans, they're very heavily taxed. they pay payroll taxes on t...

Efforts in guantanamo. on the eve of the state of the union as obama will likely cast himself as a fiscal conservative, the democratic establishment is searching for an answer to the question, what happened to hope and change? joining us now is eric alterman, column nift for the nation and author of "kabuki democracy." if it were not for the system, barack obama would do it differently. >> i think that's the case. i want to say he'd do it completely differently. but i think obama ran an honest presidential campaign. i think he meant what he said. i think he intended to make good on the promise...

Here e here's linda kelly after last night. >> this defendant, a serial child predator who committed horrific acts upon his victims causing lifelong and life-changing consequences to all of them has been held accountable for his crimes. >> his lawyer says sandusky plans to appeal. >> he was disapoimgted by the verdict, but obviously he has to live with it. >> also last night monsignor william lynn, a former cardinals aide in philadelphia was convicted of endangering children, becoming the first roman carolina coastline church official convicted of covering up sexual abuse by priests under his ...